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MS-13 gang members enter US as 'unaccompanied children' - loophole lets them go free

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent
© (AP Photo/Matt York
A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent gathers information on four Guatemalan nationals, including two men and a pair of 12 and 13-year-old boys, Wednesday, July 18, 2018, in Yuma, Ariz. Thousands of families and unaccompanied children are continuing to cross the U.S. border in Arizona and California even after learning of the government's family separation policy upon apprehension.
If the Trump administration had its way, Ramon Arevalo Lopez and Oscar Canales Molina would have been either in detention or deported.

Instead, they were out on the streets - thanks to judges' orders - where, according to police, they and another illegal immigrant delivered an MS-13 gang beat-down to two high school students in New York.

All three of the illegal immigrants entered the U.S. in 2016 as unaccompanied alien children, meaning they crossed the border without parents - a status that earned them a quick release into the country, where they were quickly reunited with their family and began to live while awaiting deportations that never came.

Pistol

Yellow Vest protestor shot in the back of the head by French police

yellow vest shot in head
© Twitter/Steph_Roy_
Olivier Beziade, a father-of-three in his 30s, was shot in the back of the head in Bordeaux on Saturday.
A fireman who joined France's Yellow Vest protest movement is in a coma after being shot in the head 'like a rabbit' by a police officer using a controversial flash ball gun.

Horrific images show Olivier Beziade, a father-of-three in his 30s, lying on the floor in Bordeaux on Saturday after being hit from behind.

He is wearing one of the high-visibility motoring jackets from which the Yellow Vests get their name.

Comment: You would think the French government would realize that the harder they try to beat down the protesters, the more anger and resolve they foment. They are doing themselves no favors in reacting this way.

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NPC

Annual DerbyCon hacker conference is shutting itself down because of rampant SJW and feminist 'negativity, polarization and disruption'

DerbyCon
The organizers of the popular Louisville tech conference DerbyCon have announced that 2019 will be the final year they will hold the event - due to social justice warriors ruining everything fun, as usual.

In a lengthy statement, the DerbyCon team explained that they are ending their run because of a "vocal group of people creating negativity, polarization, and disruption, with the primary intent of self-promotion to advance a career, for personal gain, or for more social media followers. Individuals that would have us be judge, jury, and executioner for people they have had issues with outside of the conference that has nothing to do with the conference itself."

Comment: The oppressive views and actions of SJWs and feminists are reaching a fever pitch that may someday come back at them with a vengeance.


Magnify

EU approval of glyphosate weed killer heavily based on Monsanto's own biased studies

roundup
© Reuters / Charles Platiau
EU regulators based a decision to relicense the controversial glyphosate-based Monsanto weed-killer on an assessment which was heavily plagiarized from agri-chemical industry reports, a cross party group of MEPs has revealed.

The MEPs commissioned the investigation after the Guardian reported that Germany's Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) had copy-and-pasted tracts from Monsanto studies into its safety assessment for the weed killer. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) then based its recommendation that glyphosate was safe based on that very report.


Comment: The war on information rages on when it comes to health of billions of human beings vs the billions of dollars Monsanto/Bayer stand to make by deliberately lying to the world:


Handcuffs

Former police sergeant given a $5K fine and 90 days in jail for downloading child porn

Sgt. Dean Worthington
© Columbus Police Department
Sgt. Dean Worthington, the former Columbus Police public information officer, was indicted on four counts of child pornography.
Former Columbus Division of Police Sgt. Dean Worthington was sentenced Thursday in a child pornography case.

Worthington was given a 9 year sentence in the case but that was suspended to 90 days in county jail and a $5,000 fine. He will also have to register as a sex offender for 25 years, and have no access to the internet.

In November, Worthington pleaded guilty to four counts of sex-related charges including illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material or performance and three counts of pandering sexually-oriented material involving a minor.

The prosecutor argued for prison time while the defense pushed for probation. Worthington's AA sponsor and his ex-wife spoke on his behalf. Both expressed confidence he would not commit these crimes again.

According to Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien, Worthington, 51, was downloading child pornography to his personal phone.

Bulb

Stoicism is needed more than ever: A response to the APA's distortion of masculinity

Marcus Aurelius
Recently, the American Psychological Association took aim at "traditional masculinity," when they released their "first-ever guidelines for practice with men and boys." They summarize these as follows:
Once psychologists began studying the experiences of women through a gender lens, it became increasingly clear that the study of men needed the same gender-aware approach ... the main thrust of the subsequent research is that traditional masculinity-marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression-is, on the whole, harmful.
Since the announcement, it's been open season on the APA among conservative thinkers, who've assailed everything from the content of the guidelines to the APA's treatment of masculinity itself. The APA is charged with turning masculinity into "a pathology in need of a cure," and the guidelines have been called a "profound and appalling" rejection of "the inherent nature of men"; "the equivalent of 1,000 detached human hands nervously wringing themselves in the corner of a dark maze of funhouse mirrors accented by occasional annoying bursts of extremely woke strobe lights."

Arrow Down

CNN analyst awkwardly accuses black man of white privilege during radio show

Areva Martin David Webb
CNN analyst Areva Martin put herself into an awkward situation on Tuesday when she accused a black conservative radio host of operating with "white privilege."

Sirius XM radio host and Fox News Contributor David Webb brought Martin onto his radio show to discuss diversity in media, and he noted that he has always considered his accomplishments to be more important than his skin color when applying to jobs.

"I've chosen to cross different parts of the media world, done the work so that I'm qualified to be in each one. I never considered my color to be the issue - I considered my qualifications to be the issue," Webb explained.

Martin, apparently unaware that she was talking to a black man, said that Webb's approach to media came from a place of white privilege.

Syringe

Criminal mind: Canadian sentenced to death in China for drug-smuggling has previously served prison time for drug convictions

Robert Lloyd Schellenberg

If you can't do the time...
A man sentenced to death in China on Monday for his role in a 2014 drug-smuggling operation has previously served two jail terms for drug crimes in Abbotsford.

Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, 36, formerly of Abbotsford, was sentenced to one year in prison in February 2010 and two years of probation on three counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking, according to the online provincial court database.

He was also charged with four more offences - two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking and two counts of possession of a controlled substance - in August 2011.

That case went to trial in B.C. Supreme Court in Chilliwack, and Schellenberg was convicted of all four charges in 2012 and sentenced to two years in prison. Minus credit for time in pre-trial custody, Schellenberg spent another 16 months in jail.

All of these charges were based in Abbotsford.

Comment: The political abduction by Canada of a Chinese Huawei executive on behalf of the USA probably has bearing on Schellenberg's case, but he's still a convicted criminal - in two countries now, including the one he was born in...


Bad Guys

'Star' DEA agent implicated in multimillion-dollar money laundering scheme for criminal cartels

DEA agent
© Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File
In this June 13, 2016, file photo, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents arrive on the scene of a fatal shooting in Florida. U.S. federal narcotics agent, Jose Irizarry, is accused of conspiring with a longtime DEA informant to launder more than $7 million in illicit drug proceeds from the U.S. to traffickers in Colombia, according to several current and former law enforcement officials.
A U.S. federal narcotics agent known for his expensive tastes and high-profile drug seizures has been implicated in a multimillion-dollar money-laundering conspiracy that involved the very cartel criminals he was charged with fighting in Colombia.

A once standout Drug Enforcement Administration agent, Jose Irizarry is accused of conspiring with a longtime DEA informant to launder more than $7 million in illicit drug proceeds, sometimes using an underground network known as the black-market peso exchange, according to five current and former law enforcement officials.

The officials described the case as one of the biggest black eyes in the history of the DEA, an agency that has seen repeated scandals in recent years, and one they fear could have compromised undercover operations in the U.S. and South America.

Attention

Islamic terror group launches attack on Nairobi hotel and office complex

Nairobi evacuation
© Thomas Mukoya/Reuters
People are evacuated from the compound in Nairobi.
Police and anti-terrorist forces have regained control of a Nairobi hotel and office complex, hours after it was attacked by Islamist extremist gunmen.

The assault on the dusitD2 compound in the Kenyan capital, which includes a luxury hotel, restaurants, a spa and several office buildings housing international companies, was the most outrageous by terrorists in the country for many years.

Sustained automatic gunfire and grenade explosions were heard as the gunmen rushed in and scores of people fled the scene.

There were reports that at least seven people had been killed and one suspect detained. At least 10 more were wounded, with local hospitals asking for blood donations. The death toll was expected to rise.

On Tuesday evening, interior minister Fred Matiang'i said that security forces had secured all the buildings affected.

"The security teams have evacuated scores of Kenyans and [people of] other nationalities from the buildings," he said in a brief televised statement. "We are now in the final stages of mopping up the area and securing evidence and documenting the consequences of this unfortunate event."